weevil

• A beetle called a weevil is the creature which puts the fat worms there. —  Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies
• The pea weevil is the largest of our Bruchidae. —  A Book of Exposition
• This weevil is a small gray or reddish-brown snout-beetle hardly over a quarter of an inch in length. —  Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition
• MR. LITTLEPAGE: With us out in Maryland it isn't a question of producing the chinquapin; we cut the bushes down every year by the thousands; we have nothing at all against it, but we have found that the weevil has been absolutely unsurmountable with us. —  Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916.
• In my state, the weevil is the scourge of chestnuts; I had hoped that after the chestnut blight destroyed our native chestnuts, the Chinese and Japanese chestnuts would be free from that pest. —  Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946

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